Prisoners among us!

[1337]

1 in 142 US residents now in prison
America's prison population topped 2 million inmates for the first time in history on June 30, 2002 according to a new report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
The 50 states, the District of Columbia and the federal government held 1,355,748 prisoners (two-thirds of the total incarcerated population), and local municipal and county jails held 665,475 inmates.


LINK

USA - 2,000,000 +
Canada - 36,000 +

That is a whopping

116 per 100,000 In Canada
714 per 100,000 In the USA

I think we should jail some more, just to keep up with our "big brother", We have alot to learn!

[1337]

Yes the numbers are old, but if you want to post more updated numbers, I can garuntee you they haven't dropped, and we haven't caught up!

Above was just to state, the difference in prisoner rate.

[Verotik]

well we will catch up now won't we? we are about to adopt the 'war on drugs' that is a great prison filler upper.